Does your state have a reputation? Is it unique? Does its own flavor, or is it just another drab and indistinguishable land mass? Does it have real character? Well.

STATES RANKED FROM MOST CHARACTER TO LEAST CHARACTER

  1. Hawaii
  2. Alaska
  3. Texas
  4. Florida
  5. Louisiana
  6. Maine
  7. Colorado
  8. West Virginia
  9. Utah
  10. New Jersey
  11. Montana
  12. Mississippi
  13. Minnesota
  14. Tennessee
  15. Kentucky
  16. California
  17. New York
  18. Rhode Island
  19. South Dakota
  20. North Dakota
  21. Alabama
  22. New Mexico
  23. Oregon
  24. South Carolina
  25. Vermont
  26. Arkansas
  27. Nevada
  28. Arizona
  29. Nebraska
  30. Massachusetts
  31. Georgia
  32. Idaho
  33. New Hampshire
  34. Wisconsin
  35. North Carolina
  36. Oklahoma
  37. Wyoming
  38. Virginia
  39. Washington
  40. Indiana
  41. Iowa
  42. Michigan
  43. Kansas
  44. Pennsylvania
  45. Ohio
  46. Connecticut
  47. Illinois
  48. Delaware
  49. Missouri
  50. Maryland

Rankings are definitive. There is no appeal.

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